Monday, October 7th 2013
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Final Radeon R9 290 Series Specifications Leaked
Disappointed at the $729.99 Newegg.com pricing of the Radeon R9 290X? No worries. AMD's second SKU based on the "Hawaii" silicon could be lighter on the wallet. Japanese retailers leaked the specifications sheets of both the upcoming R9 290X, and its lighter sibling, the R9 290 (non-X). Specifications of the R9 290X match rumors. The chip features 2,816 stream processors, up to 1000 MHz of GPU clock, single-precision floating point performance of 5.16 TFLOP/s, and 4 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 512-bit wide memory interface, clocked at 5.00 GHz, yielding 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The R9 290, on the other hand, features 2,560 stream processors, up to 948 MHz GPU clocks, 4.9 TFLOP/s single-precision floating point performance, and the same memory subsystem as the R9 290X. Both cards feature an identical combination of power connectors, 8-pin PCIe and 6-pin PCIe. Both feature hardware support for DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3, and Mantle.
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Hermitage Akihabara
52 Comments on Final Radeon R9 290 Series Specifications Leaked
I would also love to see those shaders unlocked but time will tell.
Let's hope it does, the gpu market could sure use some competition. I would really want to get a second gtx 780 but I will be damned if I am going to pay another £540 to get one.
If the leaked price of 700$ is correct then it better beat the crap out of 780!
If they release a flagship card that follows in the footsteps of Nvidia it will be really sad. With GK110 Nvidia stopped enthusiasts from playing too much with their cards (read the reviews, Boost 2.0 is not user friendly).
What we need is a kick ass AMD product which R9 290X will undoubtedly be, that doesn't have over protective software or driver limits.
As for smoking Titan, all we have so far is fog. Roll on the 15th. Yeah but that's GK110 to GK104. At least the 290 and 290X is the same chip.
Going by the price it will be better than the 780, equivalent to titan at stock and better than titan with overclocking.
*In fact, almost anything is :laugh:
But you don't buy really expensive things like that based on whether it is good value or not - you buy whether you want it or not.
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October 5th?
I seriously hope R9 290X will bee better and cheaper than TITAN and GTX 780.:D
Given that NVIDIA seriously overestimates the price only the best products and competitive manufacturer can splinter prices !
We do not want just € 500 price on the market also much more capable GPU' s !
First visible test results show a better product than the competition and price is litle too high Can not wait for the first real test, 15's is coming and if all go well ,it will be by the time too buy AMD GPU !:toast:
Hopefully the 290 (non x) won't be gimped to prevent it matching the "full x" model.
No ROPs spec. there, but i think will be in a good number :cool:
EDIT: also how does the dual-gpu card fit into AMD's new naming-scheme? R9 295X? 290XT(X)?